Vision and Brain How We Perceive the World

Name: Vision and Brain How We Perceive the World
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ISBN: 9780262517737

ISBN-10: 0262517736

ISBN-13: 9780262517737

Edition: 2012

Authors: James V. Stone

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In this accessible and engaging introduction to modern vision science, James Stone uses visual illusions to explore how the brain sees the world. Understanding vision, Stone argues, is not simply a question of knowing which neurons respond to particular visual features, but also requires a computational theory of vision. Stone draws together results from David Marr's computational framework, Barlow's efficient coding hypothesis, Bayesian inference, Shannon's information theory, and signal processing to construct a coherent account of vision that explains not only how the brain is fooled by particular visual illusions, but also why any biological or computer vision system should also be…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 9/14/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.00" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English

James V. Stone is a Reader in the Psychology Department of the University of Sheffield. He is coauthor (with John P. Frisby) of the widely used text Seeing: The Computational Approach to Biological Vision (second edition, MIT Press, 2010), and author of Independent Component Analysis: A Tutorial Introduction (MIT Press, 2004).